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wood, dated Bloomington, Indiana, March 8th, 1877, with 

 a MSS. communication. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Royal So- 

 ciety, New South Wales; the Editors of the Flora Batava; 

 the Hoyal Belgian Academy ; the Revue Politique; the M. 

 C. L., Cambridge, Mass. ; Silliman's Journal ; New Jersey 

 Historical Society ; Astor Library ; Mr. E. A. Barber, Prof. 

 P. Frazer, Jr., Dr. Hewson Bache ; the Medical News ; 

 Journal of I*harmacy ; Franklin Institute and Penn Monthly ; 

 War Department at Washington, and Don J. Ramon de 

 Ybarrola, of Mexico. 



A communication was read by the Secretary entitled, 

 *'0n Eight Meteoric Fireballs, &c., by Daniel Kirkwood, 

 Professor of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, 

 Indiana." 



Prof. Blazius continued the reading of his paper on " The 

 tendency of modern meteorology." 



Dr. Wood communicated a paper entitled " On the as- 

 serted antagonism of Nicotia and Strychnia, by Francis L. 

 Haynes." 



The Secretarj' communicated a paper entitled, "Notes on 

 the results of a survey of the iron ore beds of the Juniata 

 District of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania 

 by John H. Dewees." 



Prof. Cope exhibited and described a cast of the brain 

 cavity of Coryphodon elephantojnis, of which a complete skele- 

 ton exists, and discussed the homologies of the organ, and 

 showed that the genus to which the animal belongs prop- 

 erly constitutes a fourth sub-order of mammalia lower in 

 type than the Marsupialia. 



Pending nominations Nos. 830, 831, 832, 833, and 834 

 were read. 



Prof. Chase oiFered the following preamble and resolutions, 

 which were seconded, discussed and adopted : 



Whereas, It is of the greatest importance that the investigation of nat- 

 ural phenomena, such as the origin and migrations of creatures, noxious 



